Factoid
Jarvis Landry
20 Apr
, 2015
Then there’s the trend that it seems he does nothing but run shallow crosses across the field, catching tons of short balls...
Cody Latimer
20 Apr
, 2015
How have recent second-round wide receivers fared in their second season? Over the previous 14 seasons, there have been 59 other wide receivers selected in the second round...
Goal-line receiving
19 Apr
, 2015
The shorter wide receivers, meanwhile tend to have more success.
I think it ties in with the fade route...
Sleeper running backs
18 Apr
, 2015
Idea was to look at the top 20 or so running backs from the 2014, and then note where they came from. There are guys like Arian Foster and C.J...
Third-round wide receivers
18 Apr
, 2015
Over the past couple of weeks we've been looking at the hit rates of skill position players drafted in the earliest rounds of the draft...
Goal line passing
17 Apr
, 2015
This time around, I aggregated those numbers for the past three years. That gives a more telling and concrete answer...
C.J. Anderson
16 Apr
, 2015
Gary Kubiak has a strong record with running games. He helped Baltimore improve from 30th to 8th in rushing last year...
Second-round wide receivers
16 Apr
, 2015
For each round, I've been offering opinions on what the odds are of that selection being a great NFL player or not, based on how that position has fared since 2000...
Michael Crabtree / 2009 wide receivers
14 Apr
, 2015
Crabtree was one of six wide receivers drafted in the first round that season, and it has been a fairly impressive group...
Arian Foster
13 Apr
, 2015
With running backs, I like to look at per-game production. That is, set aside the missed games and look at apples-to-apples production...
First-round wide receivers
13 Apr
, 2015
Evaluations are a little tricky because whether a player has been great or not is often a matter of opinion. Kenny Britt, Hakeem Nicks, Jeremy Maclin and Percy Harvin...
Old wide receivers
12 Apr
, 2015
The age of 35 is really get up there for a wide receiver. Only three guys older than that age have gone over 1,000 yards in a season...
Vernon Davis
11 Apr
, 2015
I chose to look at per-game numbers rather than straight cumulative stats, and I tossed out guys who didn’t start more than 10 games...
Offensive lines and sacks
11 Apr
, 2015
Sacks allowed isn't entirely a function of offensive line play; offensive system and quarterback are also a large part of that...
Ivory / Ridley
10 Apr
, 2015
With Ivory, I really like his ability to run physically and pound out tough yards. He was slam it up in there, as they say...